The Sun. — London, England, 1838-06-12 00:00:00

FE ASSURANCE-DEFERRED AN NUITIES. (From the Scotsesan of Saturday, June 9.) We have seen with satisfaction the advertisements of the formation of a branch in Elnburgh, under a respectable Board of Directors, of the National Loan Fund Life Assurance So ciety, which seems to offer great advantages, particularly to the poorer clases. Many of our readers may recollect two essays which ap peared in this journal. in November, 1830, entitled " The Scotsman's Advice to the Labouring Classes." These, which were penned during the prmdial outrages which preceded the passing of the Reform Bill, were, at the request of several eminent individuals, afterwards repeatedly published as a se parate pamphlet. On iequiry we find that they are out of print_ As this Loan Fund Institution, however, connects itself closely with the purpose for which they were written, we embrace the opportunity thus presented to call attention anew to the subject. At the time that advice was written, the labouring popula tion seemed impressed with the belief that their misery and poverty were chiefly the consequence of misgovernment. Now, though far from denying that much evil arose from this cause, and convinced that the reform in the representative system has been of the greatest advantage to all classes, ex cepting only to those who lived upon the abuses which are in the progress of abolition, still at that time we told our fellow co i - itrymen of the working-classes, that the misery they then endured—misery which had fur generations been increasing, and which is still but .very partially alleviated—was chiefly at tributable to the improvident and reckless habits of the suf ferers themselves, adding yearly to a population already too great for the capital which found it employment, and thus re. clueing the price of labour to a point verging on the extreme limits of what is indispensable to preserve existence. When the labourer puts the burden of a wife and family on the pro duce of his labour, before he has accumulated any savings, to meet the increased demand, or provide against contingencies, his sickness, if lengthened, produces great distress, and his death inevitably reduces his family to starvation. No efforts of legislation can adequately provide against these mischiefs : the prosperity of the labouring class must always depend on their own habits of prudence, forethought, and :elf-contronl ; and, when the time arrives when every working man shall consider that he had no right to marry and bring human beings itito the world, until he is able, from his previous savings, to meet the additional expense thus thrown upon him, and to provide for their support and educa tion, in the event of his being carried off prematurely by death, or rendered unable to labour by sickness, then, and not till then, will the general condition of the labouring class be permanently prosperous and happy. Their savings, which are capital, will then go to augment the general capital of the country, and labourers and the demand for labour will increase in equitable progression. In the long interval which has elapsed since this advice was given, we have seen no reason to alter cur opinion. The country is now governed according to the will of the majority, but the price of ordinary labour is still kept by competition at a minimum ; and the sickness or death of the father still exposes the family of the labourer to destitution and its fearful accompaniments. And why ? Because his savings before marriage, or the small surplus he might reserve after he has a family on his hands, are neither carefully hus banded, nor beneficially employed. The Savings' Banks and Benefit S icieties have no doubt proved of signal service to many ; but, unfortunately, the be nefits of the first are hardly attractive enough to be generally popular, and the second are always of defective, and sum times of most pernicious organization. The Government plan of Deferred Annuities was also con ceived in an admirable and most patriotic spirit, but it is too much hampered with restrictions, and requires too much of the co-operation of his superiors, to be much resorted to by the operative of independent mind. What the honest and industrious operative requires, is such an investment of his savings as will ensure him the greatest return, and in the mode best suited to his future contingent necessities. He may, in advanced life, require an annuity for himself, or a command of capital to advance his family in the world —or, if fortune has placed him beyond the necessity of having these, he may require a still larger provision for his family at his death; and, besides all this, he must have security that accidental sickness, or want of employment will not step in to make him forfeit all these results. The Saving Bank offers him, indeed, a sure, but small accumulation, continually subject from the ease by which it may be withdrawn, to the temptations of his own imprudence ; the Benefit Society too often, by its convivialities, fosters this imprudence, and pro vides; only, and that in a niggardly way, for one or two of the contingencies he dreads, viz., sickness and old age, leaving the still more imminent one of being out of employment wholly unprovided for ; while the Government Deferred Annuities merely give him an annuity if he live to reach it, which is for feited entirely by any intermediate default in payment, though his savings in such event ere returned into his hands. Every thing depending, as we have shown above, on the 4 frugality and prudence of the operative himself, we hail witlsPl pleasure the developement of every project which tends to foster these virtues, and pive them a right direction : anco therefore to the above r-Isurance Society (and to all others having similar objects), we are disposed to afford our warm support, as it apparently offers a great ammunt of benefits fore the savings of the poor man's frugality. Its leading principles appear to be twofold—first, it pr vides by its loan fund to the assured or purchaser of a deferre annuity, a resource from whence, during sickness or want o • employment, he may support his family and continue his pre miums ; and, secondly, besides the larger provision its calcula tions allow, it makes the provision adapt its form to the even tual requirements of the individual, giving him the alternative of an annuity, a large sum of money in cash, or a larger sum at his death. Thus, a payment of Is. a-week, or 2/. 12s. per annum, by a person at twenty, continued till he arrives, say at sixty-five, will give him the option of an annuity of 471. 16s. 6d., or a sum in cash of 394/. Ils., or a policy, without any further premium, payable at his death, of 466/. On the other hand, should sickness or want of employment at any time interrupt She payment of his Is. per week, he can at any time borrow to ,!.he extent of two-thirds of his payments, and should he die before reaching the stipulated age, two-thirds of his payments will be returned to his' representatives. The Society thus seems to combine the advantages of the savings' banks, benefit societies, and Government securities, with others of its own. It pretends to no exclusively mag .nanimous or philanthropic motives—it is established on purely commercial principles, and therefore presents no restrictions —requires no qualifications ; and when it gives the loan which the poor man may need, it gives it as his right, i n terms of the bargain, and not as a favour which he might blush to claim, or on an exposure he might shrink from sub jecting himself to. Whenever the labouring and productive classes shall in numbers resort to such modes of securing fair and honour able independence for themselves, trades' unions, and dan gerous combinations will Le unheard o f—G overnment w ill become an easy task, and the fear of convulsion be banished from the land. We esteem it not the least among tile many benefits of Reform, that, by gradually elevating the tone and feelings of the great mass of society, it renders the once-. thought chimerical plans of self-iniprovenient by the working' classes every day more obviously of practical and even easy Attainment. EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE OF FORTUNE.--- sir Jowl Leman, whose wcri'l'erful perseverance fer so many years has at length ',oven to a certain extent crowned with success, arrived in this town. with hi; lady, on Thursday I3st, and, we believe, will remain here until his legal adviser leaves Feot land.—Leicester Chronicle. A CAPSIZE AND LOSS OF LIVES.—The Alex a7,i,j is C.) Gazette says that on Thursday evening, the 10th inst., a ris. roli r ; smack was capsized in the Potomac, and seven or eight men were deowned. The :honour of executing the grand equestrian Wel lington testin:onlal, in the Western part of the Metropolis, was on Sa. conferred upon Mr. ,M C. Wyatt. The Mar. turday last unar:tmeeslY proposed, and his Royal Highners the Duke of quis of Londonde. - rY Cambridge seconde:l, the proposition. T HE MAIDSTONE ELECTION'.—The day of no /kin:Alan is fixed fur Fr;fiay next. The friends of Mr. Fedor, the Conservative candidate, win. was unseated by the. Committee, intend to propose him again. It is not yet decidedly known whether the " Libe intend to propose any candidate on that interest. It is probable, Illiwever, that Mr. Roberts win be put in nomination. The Tories have got up a petition against the ff;oretnment Municipal Bill, which lies for signature in the Royal Ex. 'change. The petition is chiefly directed against the application of the Sill to Glasgow, and the reduction of the franchise to 54 in the smaller bsstglis. The signatures come in but slowly.—Scuts Times. The Brighton Gazette says, " Such was the effect of the urbaoity of the Commodore at the late sailing match, that although a most chilling, rainy, and uncongenial day, it was made deiightful by this gentleman's extreme politeness!" CROWS.—Williarri Evans of Trefargoed, in com pany with another farm,.", on Monday se'nnight, killed the immense number of 1,915 crows in 21 , r.tyderi Wood, Pembrokeshire, in the very 'short space of time of from threu to six o'clock in the evening.— Carnar. von Herald. Preparations are going forwed for a powerful anti tithe display in this city. A requisition, cai:in a meeting on the Hill of Pallybricken is in active course of numerous and respectable tore.— Waterford Chronicle. The Prince of Canino (Lucien Bonai..larte) passed through Liege on the fith instant, having come from Lo.id" by way of Ostend, and going to Germaoy, travelling with a passport g iven him by the Court of Rome. NOVEL CIIALLENGE.--.--Alf. Stark, the l a ,idlord of the Packet Inn, at Manninetree, offers that himself and dog shi: U play any two gentlemen in England a game of cricket for any sum,.--G -. 'Sex Herald. , On Monday n i g h t some thieves broke into the, Battle and Glass Inn, at Normanby, and succeeded in carrying off 7001. in money from the room in which some of the family were sleeping:. Suspicion fell upon two strangers who were drinking until a late hour in the coffee-room, and they were traced to 'Nottingham, where all clue I to the road taken by them was lost.—Lincoln Chronicle. Th e mos t valuable of ail the possessions of this .ccuntry is its good faith ; it is a possession which, above all others, we sh.,uld watch with j,alous circumspection, and guard from the very suspicion of infringement. — erforee. On Sunday a boy named Walker dived into Kennedy's dam, and never rose again to the surface. On the dam Icing run out, he was found covered by about two feet of mud, in which he had stuck fast. —Greenock Advertiser. NEW WORKS PUBLISHED THIS DAY.—We are are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, , 4133 this day publi s h ed the following New Works, which may now be had of all Booksellers :—l. The Man About Town, by the Author of "Glances at Life," &e. 2 vols. post Bvo. 18s. °. Mrs. Gore's Rose_ Fancier's Manual, comprisin g an Account of the Culture and Propaga. ;tier' of Roses, with a Descriptive Catalogue of 2,500 Varieties, I voL - 7boutid, I Os. Gd. And, 3. A New and Cheaper Edition, revised, of " The Bend; and the Bar," by the Author of " Random Recollections of ,the Mordg And Commons," &c., in 2 vols. post Svc.. price Ids. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. (From the Parliamentary Returns.) A Return of the Number of NEWSPAPER STAMPS at One Penny and One Halfpenny issued to the several News papers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying each Newspaper by Name, and the NuMber of Stamps issued each Month during that period to each Newspaper. EXTRACT. LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS. The Sun... Dec. 1837 102,000 Jan. 1838 lll,OOO Feb. 1835 96,000 Mar. 1828 lll,OOO ------ 4'2.0,000 Standard... Dec. 1837. Jan. 1838... Feb. 1838 lOO,OOO Mar. 1833 lOO,OOO 383,000 Dec. Glov e 1837 72,000 Jan. 1838 90,000 Feb. 1838 72,000 Mar. 1838 72,000 20G,000 ( Antrier Dec. 1837 31,000 Jan. 1838 ......... 39,000 Feb. 1838 33,000 Mar. ISBB 33,000 136,000 lIIGH WATER AT LONDON bRIDGE TO-MORROW. Moruing ...... V minutes after Evening ...... 13 minutes after 6 3, St. James's-sqnare, June, 1838. NOW READY, COLONEL MACEROM'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 3irEMOIRS of the LIFE and ADVENTURE of COLONEL FRANCIS MACERONI, Late Aide-de-Camp to Joachim Murat, King of Naples. Two vols. decoy Svo., Portrait, 245. " The work before us is a narrative of the most extraordinary Adventures. It also is exceedingly interesting as regards the pro ceedings of Bonaparte, Wellington, &c. Wherever Murat went he was attended by Colonel Maccroni; and, therefore, the work every where abounds with Personal Anecdotes of all the Eminent Characters who acted their parts in the most splendid era of Modern History. In a word. we have seldom seen two volumes which con tain such a variety of lively, picturesque, and well told Adventures." —Bell's Messenger. John Haerone, St. James-square. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o'clock. • ~, , 4 ,„ " * -- - x-7 ir --a • • Ylit i S -., . - -z-Wo ' ...-- --1,,,,,;,f,..4 5.-„,.......?...4,4 4 ...•_,..._...„, : „..:, . ~,- . ~ Wher )fl WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1838. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved last night the further consideration of the Report on the Municipal Bill for Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL supplicated a week's delay, on account of Dublin, as he is to make out a peculiar case fur that city ; but after some little coquetting the Bill was proceeded with, and the clause referring to Dublin post poned. Sir ROBERT PEEL again insisted on the 101. fran chise, which was again resisted by the Ministers, and, after a long debate, he was defeated by a majority of 20 in a House of 5.5 0 Members. So far as the House of Com mons is concerned, this settles the question of the amount of the franchise. The whole evening nearly was employed in debating this clause, and the Bill will not be further pro ceeded with till Friday next. Let us look at the grounds of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S arguments. The mutual animosities and violence of the factions in Ireland have given rise to protracted party contests, which in the last result have been decided by Election Committees of the House of Commons. They have been followed by Intimidation Committees, Fictitious Vote Committees, and various other Committees, to inquire into the mode of ex ercising the elective franchise in Ireland, which has accord ingly become, in all its imperfections, inconsistencies, and corruptions, well-known to the public. Too often has the exercise of the franchise been dictated by unworthy motives, and the investigations have led to the conclusion, that great numbers of the electors are fictitious and cor rupt. Sir ROBERT PEEL last night artfully took advantage of this circumstance, and defended his proposition to ex clude all persons who are not rated to the poor at 101. from the franchise—thus shutting them out from the Con. stitution, and giving them proper motives for discontent and disobedience, by quotations from the report of the Ficti tious Vote Committee. In our estimation it is mast desirable, by the widest suffrage possible, to give all the people an in terest in making and in supporting the laws, and those who, like Sir ROBERT, Will only legislate for class interests, and on class views, will never command the willing obedience of those whom they disregard, contemn, and exclude. Every observer is aware that all the persons who are excluded from the franchise under the Reform Act, by the 101. clause, constituting the bulk of the labouring classes, are at this moment as hostile to that Act, and to the laws made under it, as ever they were to the rotten boroughs, and are at this moment engaged in a wide spread combina tion, the offspring of their discontent, to procure the people's charter. By and bye they will overturn the Government, or the Government will have to put them down by force. Ignorant of this, or still disposed to treat the bulk of the people with contempt, Sir ROBERT PEEL wishes to extend the error, and would willingly compel all the excluded Irish to remain in hostility to the Imperial Legislature. The line of argument by which he supported his disfranchising and hate-sowing scheme was worthy of the unstatesman-like project. If we were to hunt through all the reports of controverted Election Committees for England, it would be just as easy for us to make out a case against the whole body of English electors and English representatives, against the rich as well as the poor, the bribers as well as the bribed, as Sr ROBERT made out a case against the Irish electors. There is no system of Govertment, is fact, however arbitrary and despotic, which may not be justified by referring only to the vices and crimes of mankind, and his arguments are as powerful against every species of liberty, including the representative system of England, as against extending the franchise to all the inhabitants of the towns of Ireland. Those who supported him are in truth the enemies of all liberty. Another basis of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S argument was his undisguised wish to maintain the Protestant Church in Ireland. Whether avowed last night or not, every body knows that his determination, and the determination of his party, to fix that nuisance, by the force of law, on the Irish, is the key to his and their policy. Whether he care fully avoided speaking of the Church or not, and substi tuted Protestant for the Church, what he had at heart, and has now, was to preserve the Establishment. For that purpose, by securing, if possible, the ascendancy of the opulent Protestants, in the towns he is zealous for the 10/. franchise. If those who dwell in houses of less than 10/. value were all Protestants, and the rich were the Catho lics, the Right Hon Baronet would be for universal suf frage. Personal predilection, and ancient traditionary and unfounded religious prejudices, and class interests, are at the bottom of his hostility to an extensive franchise. On introducing the Catholic Emancipation Act, the Right Honourable Baronet carefully enumerated the representatives of the people who were in favour of eman cipation, as a reason for passing it. His subsequent con forming policy is also a proof that he recognises the neces sity of consulting the people. Yet in this case, for the sake of preserving an Establishment which even here only fana ticiscs without instructing the people, and is deeply stained 1 with the blood of Ireland—an Establishment which in Ireland is opposed to all theory, and which the experience of two hundred years has demonstrated to be a mere ele ment of discord—for the sake of preserving the greatest disgrace to legislative skill tlAt ever existed, did the Might Honourable Baronet, while he admits the propriety of deferring to the people, willingly propose to outrage and insult all the Irish who are not rich enough to live in a tea-pound house. And this specimen of miserable personal partialities and gross ignorance of what is going on in the land', is called by the Tories our greatest Statesmen—Bah! The conduct of the Herne Secretary, in the case of THoo, so far as releasing him from confinement is con cerned, and about which some conversation took place last night in the House of Lords, can be defended, without referring, as is done by a Ministerial Morning Contempo- Try, to some similar conduct in Sir R. PEEL, when he was at the Home Office. The whole of Thom's conduct, from the moment of his coming p,rom;nently before the public, was that of a lunatic ; and he having been finally sent to a lunatic asylum, completely took his case out of the hands of the Judges and the Courts of Law. Lord Jolts RUSSELL might have asked the opinion of mad-doc tors, but the Judges do not belong to that category. Now, when THom had never before been violent, and when, being a lunatic, be could not be knowingly guilty of an offence, Lord JOHN RUSSELL was bound to attend to the supplications of his friends to place him at their dis posal, instead of being treated like a pauper-lunatic. Lord JOHN listened to their prayers ; the fault of not subse quently taking due care of him was theirs, not that of the Noble Lord. If the justices and parsons of the country have really any duties to perform except those of enjoy ing their revenues, it was the duty of those in the neighbourhood of Boughton and Herne Hill to be informed of what was going on around them since last October, and to have taken measures accordingly. Either the Magistracy, or the system which constitutes them, is to blame for the affair having come to such a con clusion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not to blame for having allowed THOMS'S friends to remove him from the lunatic asylum. He has a good defence in the nature of the case, and to defend him as the Chronicle does by referring to Sir ROBERT PEEL implies that the Whigs have no rule of conduct but that laid down by the Tories, and that, whether in opposition or in office the Tories still, in fact, govern the country. It is a virtual acknowledgement of the superiority of the Tories, and of their exclusive fitness to administer the affairs of State. Since the appointment of Lord MULGRAVE to the onerous duty of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. he has taken every opportunity of convincing the peopla cf that country that one great object be had in view was to make the law respected by enforcing the due and impartial administration of justice. Where Tory Judges have inflicted punishment greater than the offence, he has exercised the prerogative of mercy by remitting or mitigating the sentence ; where Magistrates have, in accordance with the old practice, shown gross partiality Go one class, or encouraged hostile feuds by drinking party toasts at their nightly revels, he has, not withstanding the denunciations of Colonel Pis:cis-AL and Colonel VERNER, dismissed them without ceremony from the Commission of the Peace ; and, as a natural con sequence, the oppressed Catholics, who knew the law before only from its severity, begin now to look up to it as their protector. Orangernen,however, had so long usurped all the magisterial functions, and been so habituated to see only one side of a question, that some more sweeping mea sure was necessary, and Lord MULGRAVE has accordingly taken advantage of the demise of the Crown to carry his views into effect by a general revision of the Magistracy of Ireland. The circular addressed to the Lieutenants of Counties shows very plainly the necessity of such a revi sion. We infer from that circular that persons hold Com missions in the Peace whose character or circumstances render them totally unfit for the sacred duty of a Magis• trate. In several counties naval and military officers, clerks of the Crown, officers in the Customs, and per sons holding offices connected with county gaols, who have no property in the district, held Commission s of the Peace. In others insolvency, or serious pecuniary embar rassments, operate to disqualify individuals for the useful and independent discharge of the duties of a Magistrate. Many of them too are the agents of estates, who possess no property in the country; not a few are Clergymen, whose duties as Magistrates, his Excellency thinks, are not suit able to the sacred character ; and last of all, there are some whose conduct or character renders itdesirable, for the better administration of justice, that they should not be re-ap pointed to an office of such trust and importance. A tho rough expurgation, therefore, has taken place, and new lists have been prepared and submitted for the considera tion of Lieutenants of Counties. This will be a bitter dose for some of these gentlemen who have long been in the habit of recommending only violent party men ; but it is a dose which the Irish Government seems determined they shall take. If they should still continue refractory there is one great remedy left ; and the Government, who have had the courage to propose such a sweeping change, will not be deterred from adopting the only measure by which it-can be fully carried into affect. Lords-Lieutenants have but too often thwarted the Government in this country, as well as in Ireland, and an example or two might be made with good effect. We insert, in another part of our paper, an artiele from our enlightened and liberal Northern Contemporary the Scotsman, on the National Loan Fund Life Assurance So ciety—an article which, for sound and well-considered views of the importance of this Institution we have not seen equalled. For our own part, having so frequently and early discussed this subject, and unceasingly insisted on the moral advantages it opens out to the middle and productive classes, it gives us infinite satisfaction to observe it elicit ing the notice of so many of our Contemporaries, and more particularly so able a one as the Scotsman, who, being si tuated in the midst of so large a mass of our industrial population, is so well prepared to pronounce a valuable opinion. We select a paragraph or two, which must strike our readers as full of sound judgment and philosophical truth : " No efforts of legislation can adequately provide against these mis chiefs : the prosperity of the labouring class must always depend on their own habits of prudence, fore-thought, and self-controul ; and, when the time arrives when every working man shall ccnsider that he had no right to marry and bring human beings into the world, until he is able, from his previous savings, to meet the additional expense thus thrown upon him, and to provide for their support and education, in the event of his being carried offprematurely by death, or rendered unable to labour by sickness, then, and not till then, will the general condition of the la. bouring, class be permanently prosperous and happy. The savings, which are capital, will then go to augment the general capital of the country, and labourers and the demand for labour will increase in equitable progression Its leading principles appear to be twofold—first, it provides by its loan fund to the assured or purchaser of a deferred annuity, a resource from whence, during sickness or want of employment, be may support his family and continue his premiums ; and, secondly, besides the larger provision its calculations allow, it makes the provision adapt its form to the eventual acquirements of the individual, giving him the alterna. tive of an annuity, a large sum of money in cash, or a larger sum at his death. Thus a payment of Is. a-week, or 21. 12s. per annum, by a per son at 20, continued till he arrives, say at 65, will give him the option of en annuity of 471. I 6s. 6d., or a sum in cash of 394/.115., or a policY with out any further pr e mi um, p aya bl e at hi s d eat h , of 4661. On the other hand, should sickness or want of employment at any time interrup the payment of his Is. per week, he can at any time borrow to the ex tent of two.thirds of his payments, and should he die before reaching the stipulated age, two-thirds of his payments will be retuened to his representatives. It pretend sto no exclusively magnanimous or philanthropic motives—it is established on purely com mercial principles, and therefore presents no restrictions—requires no qualifications; and when it gives the loan which the poor man may need, it gives it as his right, in terms of the bargain, and not as a favour which lie might blush to claim, or on an exposure he might shrink from subjecting himself to. * s We esteem it not the least among the many benefits of Reform, that, by gradually elevating the tone and feelings of the great mast; ofof society, it renders the once-thought chimerical plans of sdf.irr.provement by the working classes every day more obviously of practical and even easy attainment. We have received New-York Papers of the 21st ult., four days later than the published arrivals of our Mornirg Contemporaries. They bring no accounts of fresh move ments in the political world. At Washington, things ap pear to be going on much in the old way. The Legisla ture is busy, but about what is scarcely a question of in quiry in the second city of the Union. To the state of the Money Market every eye is turned ; and we arc happy to observe many symptoms of its increasing stability. Th e following extract from the City article of the J.Vew Yolc Daily Whig of the 21st ult., will best explain the appear ances of improvement visible in Wall-street NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, SATURDAY, 3,1, v 19. United States Bank Shares continue to rise. They opened this morning at 1181, and shut at 1181. This advance in these securities must he very galling to the enemies of Mr. Biddle. It is a sure sign of the confidence of the people in the institution. Even its notes have come down to within one, and one and a quarter per cent. of our specie 4,300, a t ad vanced paying bank paper. By the time Mr. B. resumes cash p a y ments, his detractors will find themselves in a dilemma, out of which th ey w i ll have to escape by a libe r al use of falsehoods. Tle rates.w ho! e number ueiaw a r o e of shares and i, sold so n to l - o day amount soon to time. wc are happy to see that the stock of the Bank of Illinois stands at par. That of the Bank of Kentucky has risen to 91. This will be a source of gra tification to our western friends. packet from London, o f t h e 24 t it h Ve ut h t a i nothingmo. There Hues 2-enisb'irianj: p ia ortant In the money market. Cotton was steady in Liverpool, at the prices brought by the Westchester. The Treasury Note Bill for the creation of 10 millions m ore of irre deemable paper, has passed the Senate. 'lb is troublesome affair b e i ng disposed of, and the wheels of Government being set again in motion Mr. Boon can continue his efforts to rescind the specie circul ar a t l eisure : How the vote stood on his third motion to suspend the rules, it is not stated in the Washington Papers. While he will be directing his fire in the Lower House against this anti credit measure, the Senate will he engaged on Mr. Clay's resolution. Next week will, therefore, probably furnish some interesting topics for discussion in the money world. Our last dates from Nashville, I Ith of May, speak of a betterness in the money market of that city. Premiums on funds to the north and east of that town, keep up to 10 a 13 per cent. Mississippi money has fallt.-n two per cent full. The Post Notes of the PlaLter's Bank were eagerly taken. U. S. Bank Notes and specie were firm at 124. per cent. premium. The rates of Nataez's Bank Notes stood at 18 per cent. dis. Brandon money ruled at 25 per cent., being the worst in market. The report of the President and Managers of the Susviehanna Canal THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1838. Company has reached us. It appears that the prospects of uniting the Pensylvania state works with the tide water of the Che.iapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, are brighter than ever. There are now engaged on the work 2,900 men. About 800,000 dollars have been actually expended. The Commissioner of Loans of Maryland advertises for the purchase of 400,000 dollars of the funded debt of the state, the stock to bear an interest of 3 per cent. per annum, payable in specie, quarterly in Balti more, and redeemable in 1890. A fine chance this for some of our ca pitalists, whose chests are overflowing with foreign gold. Our advises from Apalachicola state that the exports of that region wiA probably exceed 50,000 bales of cotton this season, against 30,000 Lags last year. As not one-sixteenth of the good lands on the Cha tahoochie, and on the Flint not one-twentieth, has been brought into cultivation, it is believed that Apalachicola must, in three or four years, rank equal to Savannah as a cotton shipping port. From the Ist cf October last, to the 10th inst., the exports to Liverpool have been 11,078 bags; to New York 14,517 ditto; to Charleston 4,216 ditto; to New Orleans 2,363 ditto; to Boston 3,359 ditto ; and ether ports 1,179. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE—MAY 19. 116 U. S. Bank 118.1 —I18i; 9.2 Manhatten 124 ; 9 Bank of Ame rica 1191 ; 100 Phmnix 108; 50 Merchant's Ex. Bank 114 ; 250 Bank of Kentucky 91-901 90; ; 40 Am. Insurance Company OS ; 30 Mutual In. Company 101 ; 70 New Jersey R R 98 ; 70 Utica It It 1491-120 ; 40 Long Island R R 56-561-561-561. Among the arrivals from New York we must not omit to mention the second Number of Mackenzie's Gazette— a weekly Newspaper started on the 11th ult. at New York by the celebrated patriot and rebel W. L. MACKENZIE, of Upper Canada. This journal i s devoted to the politics of our North American colonies and Europe ; the Editor wisely abstaining from all cognizance of the political relations of the United States. As a matter of course, the British Cabinet and the two Houses of Parliament come in for a plentiful share of the coarsest abuse in MACKENZIE'S columns. The fate of this Journal will be no bad test of the alleged sympathy of the people of the United States, for the triumph of rebellion in the Canaias. We have files of Quebec and Montreal Papers to the I2th ult., inclusive, but they bring no news of a date later than the accounts published yesterday. Several reprints of the first number of " Nicholas Nic klebv," by Boz, had appeared in New York. It is the opinion of a Correspondent, that more editions of Mr. DicKiNs's popular works have been sold in America than in England ! To use his own expression, " the New Yorkers are Boz mad." The " Lady of Lyons" was to be brought out at the Park Theatre on the 2lst. By the arrival of the Liverpool steamer at Falmouth on Sunday, we have received advices from Lisbon of the sth inst. In the southern Provinces several bands of Miguelites had again made their appearance. At Marra, Chaves, Ponte de Lima, and Amaranthe, slight disturbances had occurred between the Charterists and the Constitutionalists, but the authorities succeeded in restoring order without bloodshed. The truth is that half the insurgents that appear are merely robbers who cover their depreciations under the con venient plea of annoying the enemies. of Don MmuEL. In number these vagabonds are so contemptible that an ac tive Government would not be a month in clearing the whole kingdom of them. But the Portuguese Government is adequate to the performance of no function requiring promptitude, decision, and vigour. It was reported that the Ministers had at length come to the determination of signing the Slave Treaty rather than risk the alienation of thelrienclship of England. The State coffers were again empty, there being no money to pay the dividends due this month. The KING, QUEEN, and PRINCE ROYAL, were stated to be in good health. The Paris Papers of Sung; have been received, with advices from Madrid of the 3d, and Sarragossa of the sth instant. On Saturday evening the Chamber of Deputies terminated its discussion on the African Credit Bill, when the Ministers obtained a majority of 114, only 94 votes being given against the Bill. This result of a four day's debate appears to have astonished the Opposition. The KING reviewed the National Guards on Sunday, on the Place du Carrousel. The attendance of that body was less numerous than on any similar occasion since the revolution. The intelligence from Madrid is not of much interest. The Gazette of the 3d contains a paragraph taxing the British artillery with having stolen 38,000 English cart ridges, missing at the Fort of Dormideras at Corunna. \Ve do not know whether this is intended as jest or earnest, but in either case it would be difficult which to condemn most—the wit or the wisdom of the writer. Subjoined are the only two paragraphs worthy of notice in these Journals : Tim Toulonnais gives the following particulars of the position of the Bey of Tunis with respect to the French Government. In spite of the proofs of friendship which we had given the Bey of that Regency by raising him from the fate which the squadron of the Sultan re served for him, he has yielded, as it seems, to the intrigues which the agents of the Porte have continued, in order to make him fall into the snare which they have laid for him. Thus after having sent ten millions to the Sultan, the young Bey is in expectation of the Turkish Ambassador, who is to give bins the investiture of the Rollick, and present to him the Caftan of Honor. The Ambasador will scarcely have received the seven millions, which the Bey will pay him, when, in all probability, Turkish squadron will arrive to depose the Bey ; for the Sultan does not pardon the death of his favourite. In this state of things the young Bey of Tunis manifests dissatisfac tion with the French, whom he accuses of disturbing his friendly rela tMns with the Porte, and it will be necessary to use violence towards him in order to save him, in spite of himself, from the fate which is reserved for him. France cannot permit a man who is a favourite of the Sultan to be placed at the head of the Beylik of 'Tunis, because the future fate of Algeria will depend on this event. The ship of the line, the Jesus, is therefore commissioned to defeat the intrigues which tend to deceive the Bey of Tunis, and to prevent Turkish ships with troops on beard from entering the Goletta. We are persuaded that R ear -Admiral Lalande will execute this commission in the roost satis factory manner.—La Gazette de Prance. LOGRONO, JUNE 3.—The Count de Luchana had made every arrange ment to attack Estella, but being obliged to detach Lionel Conde to watch the motions of the Carlist division, which has entered Arragon, he seems to have resolved, while still threatening Estella, to direct his force at first against Tolosa; at least this is what may be inferred from the latest movements of troops that have taken place.—Private Corre spondence of the Constitutionnet. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) WOODSTOCK. The Committee met this morning at the usual hour, when the Chair. man stated that the vote of Henry Baylis (which was under co nsidera tion when the adjournment took place yesterday) should remain on the po!l. Mr. Atis•ry said that being the case he must now state that, having been able to ascertain with sufficient precision on what principles the Committee were inclined to act, he had advised his client to press the case no further, and should now withdraw all further opposition to the sitting Member. After a few remarks from Mr. THESIGER the Committee came to the usual formal resolutions—That the Marquis of Blandford . was duly elected ; that the petition of Lord John Churchill was not frivolous or vexatious, nor was the opposition thereto. The Committee then separated. HOUSE OF LORDg.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Scarborough, and Lord Itavensworth, sat in the House of Lords today to hear Scotch Appeals. TILE EARL OF STRATHMORE. V. SIR JOHN PAUL. This case came before their Lordships upon appeal frcm the decision of the Court of:Sessicn in Scotland, refusing to reduce four deeds executed by the late Ears of Strathmore, whereby the Noble Appellant, the pre. sent Earl, was deprived of the estates hitherto held by those who in. herited the title. The arguments appear likely to occupy several days. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) IN RE WILTON—JUDGEMENT. The MASTER of the ROLLS, on coming into Court, gave judgment on this motion, made on beh a lf o f M r. C hambers to discharge an order ob i tamed by himself to tax the bill of costs of his Solicitor, Mr. Wilton, to have it declared that Mr. Wilton's re-aemission as a Solicitor of the Court, in November 1816, was void, and that he was incapable of ac ting as a Solicitor. Mr. Wilton was admitted an Attorney in the Court of King's Bench, in May 1810, and a Solicitor of the Court of Chancery in the month of June following. Ile did not practice either as an Attorney or Solicitor, nor did he take out his certificate for nearly three years after his admission ; but in A pr il 1813, and without being re-admitted, he took out his certificate, and afterwards practised. He continued to practice, and to take out his certificate, though not quite regularly, till the year lB°o. From that time till January, 1526, lie ceased to practice or to take out his certificate. In November, 1826, he was re-admitted a solicitor of the Court of Chancery, and from January, 1826, he took out his certificate regularly during the continuance of the transactions in question. The Court of King's Bench decided that the re-admission of Wilton as an attorney became void in consequence of his neglect to take out his certificate for more than twelve months after the time of readmission. That reasons was not applicable to the re-admission of Wil ton as a solicitor of the Court, but it was agreed that the re-admis>ion could only be founded on a valid, original admission, and that the origi nal admission of Wilton, in 1810, was under the 27th Geo. 111., chap. 90, rendered null and void, by his neglect to take out his certificate till April, 1813. Attornies and Solicitors (his Lordship observed) acquired their character as such by admission in the Courts in which they prat,. Used, and they were not to be admitted .unless they had served as clerks, and been examined and sworn. His Lordship thus went through the authorities that bore upon the point and said, hue was of opinion that the motion so far as it sought a declaration that the re-admission of Wilton was void, and that he was incapable to act as a solicitor most be refused with costs, and that the motion, so far as it sought to discharge the order for taxing the bill of costs, could not be granted without the consent of Mr. Wilton. Having decided the case upon its merits, it was not nec essary to go into the objection on the point of form ; but his Lordsh i p was of opini on th a t t h e application ought to have been made by petition, and that its being made by motion was not regular. The COURT then proceeded with the consent petitions. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Vice-Chancellor was occupied the whole morning with the further arguments in the part heard case of the Marquis of Bute against the Taff Railway. The case had not concluded when we left, WESTERN CIRCUIT. Before the Right Honourable Sir JAMES PARKE, and the Honourable Sir THOMAS COLTMAN. Days and Places appointed for holding the Summer Assizes, 1838 SOU PTON—Thursday, July 12, at Winllester. DORSET—Wednesday, July 18, at Dorchester. DEVON—Saturday, July 21, at Exeter. CITY OF EXETER—Same day. CORNWALL—Saturday, July 28, at Bodmin. SOMERSET—Saturday, August 4, at Wells. WlLTS—Saturday, August 11, at Devizes. BRlSTOL—Thursday, August 1(5, at Bristol. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY DEAL, JuNz I I,—Wind S E., light airs.—Arrived and proceed, d for the River, the Berkshire, Clarkson, from Bombay. Came down from the River and sailed the Surrey, Sinclair, for South Australia ; Sphe roid, Stowe, for St. Vincent ; North Ash, Sprague, for Teneriffe ; View forth, Bell, for Quebec ; and Casket, Fraser, for St. Kitt's. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 11.—Wind N. W. to W., fine.—Arrived the Gla diator, Britten, from New York. Sailed Ludovica, Otto, for Dantzic. PLYMOUTH, JUNE W.—Wind S.S.W.—The Sir Edward Paget, Camp. bell, from London to Bombay, has put in here, with loss of main chan. nel and plates, and other damage, having been contact with a ship off the Lizard. FALMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind S.S.W. to N.N. W.—Arrived the Li. verpool steamer, from Gibraltar, left the 3lst ult., Cadiz the Ist instant, Lisbon the sth, Oporto the (ith, and Vigo the 7th; Tampico, Craigie, from Pernambuco; and Patriot Meinen, Tiedmann, from Dundee for the Havanna!), with damage to stern, head and bowsprit carried away, and other injury, having been in contact last night off the Lizard with a large ship, supposed to be an outward-bound Indiaman. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 11. — Wind variable, moderate.—Arrived the Betsy, Hunter, from Buenos Ayres; Broad Oak, Hubbock, from Pa raiba; Mary Ann, from Demerara ; and Caspian, Patten, from New Orleans. Arrived off port the A Berton, from Calcutta. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 11.—Arrived the Diana, Hansen, from Memel. BRISTOL, JUNE 1 I.—A rrived, the Elizabeth, Bellamy, from Lisbon. MILFORD, JUNE 11.—Arrived, the Martha, Evans, from Sierra Leone. CORK, JUNE 9.—Arrived, the Eliza, Sievewright, from St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, JUNE 11.—Arrived the Mary, Scoffin, from Hambro' ; Europa, Schren, and Loy,ise, Knudsen, from Kiel ; Fraw Rebecca, from Konigsberg ; Active, Wolff, from Stockholm. EASTBOURN, JUNE 11.—Arrived off, the Maria Ann and Pauline, from La Guayra. DROGHEDA, JUNE 9.—Arrived, the IsTepturms, Poeplow, Memel. The Oderin, Hicks, from Newfoundland to Figueira, was wrecked near Cape Mondeso, 30th ult. Crew s,,ved. THE WATERLOO ROAD MURDER (THIS DAY.) Considerable doubts begin to exist in the public mind as to the cor rectness of tke statements made in the letter on which Hubbard has been apprehended. Several of the neighbours are of opinion that the document has emanated from the same pen as several of the anonymous communications sent to the Coroner during the inquest. Ever since Hubbard has been in custody, Inspector Field and Serjeant Price, and some of the Police, have been unremitting in their enquiries in the neighbourhood of Goswell-street and its vicinity, for the purpose of ascertaining whether such a person as the writer of the letter is known, and as yet they have not been able to obtain the slightest clue, There is one very singular circumstance connected with the information con tained in the letter, namely, the writer merely dates it from Goswell street, and states that if an advertisement appears in the Morning Chro nick lie will come forward. Another equally singular circumstance as connected with this most mysterious case is, that he states' he was robbed and assaulted. Now, the house in question is of such a construction as to leave no doubt, that if any thing like a struggle took place it must have been heard, for the brother of the deceased,who has hitherto remained on the premises, has informed us that he can hear those above and be low move about. At the same time, one cannot help suspecting that if an individual had been so attacked, he would have given information to some of the police on duty in the Waterloo.road. That the unfortunate deceased was killed without a struggle there can be no doubt, for on the upper part of the mouth and chin there were the impression of the fin. gers of her mur,:erer, who had evidently caught her mouth by some means in one of his hands, and thereby prevented her calling out, while he cut her throat. We believe that it was Mr. Thomas Grimwood who first noticed these discolourations ; but probably the medical gentlemen not thinking them of any importance, took no notice of the marks, at least when before the Coroner. Hubbard, we are informed, has still maintained the same appearance of self.possession since his committal as before. He speaks but little; at the same time, every precaution is taken with him. • It is to be hoped that the writer of the letter will come forward and support the statement which he has made, for it is a duty which he owes to God, to justice, and to his country, to bring home the guilt of the murder to the perpetrator. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our chief arrivals this morning are from New York, cf the illst ult, and from Lisbon of the sth inst. By the former we learn that commercial affairs have taken a more favourable turn in the United States. Stocks and trade were progressing, and the Treasury Note Bill had passed the House of Representatives, and sent to the Senate. The great hall at Philadelphia, called the Pennsylvania Hall, a new and costly building, opened for the first time on the 11th May, was set fire to by the mob, and the whole wood work of the hall was entirely destroyed. From Lisbon the accounts state, that some rioting •had taken place in various parts of the provinces, but they were not of much importance. It seems that the Treasury still remains empty, and the Government will not be able to pay the dividend. All appears to be tranquil at Lisbon. THE FUND-S: Consols, which closed rather heavy yesterday at 944 L for the July Opening, may be quoted at 94. it, 95 ; Reduced, 939 i ; Exchequer Bills, 68 70 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2044 205*. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing as yet. Spanish Active opened at the leaving off price of yesterday, 21 t 1, ; Portuguese also 351,- 36; Three per Cents., 231 24; Brazilian, 801; Mexican, 251 ; Columbian, 27* i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 54; 55. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock! ........ . 2004 5 1 4 4% Lidia Stock — • 3 per Cert. ,e , 93%% ' ijitto Boat ...... . 74 pm. 3 per Cant, Cons..., — ISouth Sea Stock — 3% per Cent__ ~... ............ ( Old ..knrmi ties ....•... ...... Ditto 1ied......... ............ i 01 1 4 %14 ! New Ditto --, Now 111..', per Cent — 3 per Cent. Annuities, ;751_ New 5 per Cent.. -- I Exch. Bills, ..i:l, , 00 6O 70 pm Bonk L _ngAnnuitiestoexrire !Ditto, ........ ......501' CS 711 per. Jan. 5, 1860.... Oct. 10, ISM) Jan. 5, 1860...... .............. I Ditto Advertised — per Jan. 5, loro .. Bank Stock for Account...—. April 5 1880 - InclLa Stock for Account — Jan. 5, 1870„_. — I Consols for Account 94% 5 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK A tIFtl lan Bonds ...... ........ —' Peruvian Bonds .. Be;. an Bonds —l Ditto Account ..... ~... — Ditto Account — I Portuguese Bonds. Brazilian Bands ... Ditto Account II .ICZ,OS Ayres Bonds — D•tto, 3 per cent.... — Ditto Account ~...... .liillist, 13c;ries . ...... .......... Pvirbian Bends Ditto Account — I itussian Bonds, 1822 C , lemblar, Bonds — Ditto Account.... — Ditto Account .. —I Ditto Metallic ................... C)iumbiaii Bonds, 18'24 —i Spanish Bonds Ditt; Account ...... ........ Ditto Account — 0 :nisi) riond ... J ... ~ .. ...... .. 7171 Ditto Con 15,1836 21% Ditto Account . — Ditto Account 21% Ure,,lt Bends.„ ...„. .. ..,......... French, 5 per cent.-- ..... —I. • Ditto Bonds, 11325 — ------ 4 per cent Ditto Account - 3 p e r cent. - „ Idexican Bonols, 5 per cent.... 21' Exchange ....... Ditto Account .. —, Dutch, 24, per cent 55 , ,, , , 14 Ditto. 6 per cent. •Itlri Account . —l Ditto, : yer csnt lOO% Ffi 1 Neapolitan —l Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Mining Company of Ireland 7 Eastern Counties Railw a y 5 Great Western Railway Company 65 Brighton Railway CcmpanY ll London and Southampton Railway Company 5O Manchester and Birmingham Railway 7 Do. Do. Extension Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 Do. Liverpool Do. United States... Bitumen, Bastenne and G au j ac " Do. Polonceau 2 13; 4 olonial Bank 25 27 Landon and Westminster Bank 2O 21 3 4 54 Union Bank of Australia .... 7 i,i I 1 i i 4 HALF-PAST ONE. Consols continue in the same.inactive state as they were in the early part of the morning, at 941, 95 for the July Account; Reduced, 93i ; Exchequer Bills, 6S 70; Bank Stock, 204 f . In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active rather lower, 213. with Coupons ; Portuguese also, 351 i ; Three per Cents., 23! i i ; Mexican, 254 ; Columbian, 27i i ; Dutch Two-and-a half per Cents, lower, 55. Per Share. 9 4 86 7 11 1 ,0 g 42Y, In the Share Mar .et very little doing in Railway Shares, but some business in the Asphaltcs, at lower prices. Liverpool discount ; United States l 4 prem.; Brighton Railways prem. ; Great Western 9.2 prem. THREE O'CLOCK Con Eels for Account, 941, 95, • A very heavy storm of rain and hail, attended with thunder and lightning, visited the metropolis between twelve and one o'clock to-day. We have not heard that it caused any injury, but no doubt, wherever fruit, vegetables, and corn were exposed to it, there it must have done considerable damage. The rain was extremely heavy. The Duke of Wellington's entertainment on the 18th instant is to be more than usually magnificent. Since the last meeting at Apsley House on the anniversary of Waterloo day, four of the officers have gone to " that bourne from which no traveler returns." These places are to be supplied by four junior officers. It is expected that about 70 will be present on this occasion. COMPARATIVE SPEED OF THE GREAT WEST ERN AND THE SIRIUS.—The Great IVestern overhauled the Sirius, on the last voyage, at the rate of 37 miles per diem. This was more the effect of the superior dimensions of the ship, which enabled her better to contend and hold her way against heavy seas and high winds, than from the proportions of power to tonnage, which indeed are all in favour of Sirius—as for instance, she is represented as of seven hundred tons burthen, and having engines of three hundred and twenty horse power. If we allow the twenty to be overstated, and that she has engines of three hundred h orse power, we have, by the siiw,,g lly of her owners, two tons and o ne- thi rd for each horsepower e red i to move. The fact, however, is, it is nearer two tons to each horse power, as she is not 700 tons. The Great iVestern being 1,340 tons, and having engines of 450 horse power, has only one horse power to propel every three tons. In fine weather and smooth water, no fair sea going steamer can beat another, with any pretensions, beyond one mile per hour. The Sirius is a fast boat, and it is probable the Great Blestern could not over haul her even at that rate ; and if she could, the former having 650 miles fair start, it would require a passage of 27 clays for the latter to come up ; so that on this shelving, if the Sirius has a passage of 13,1 daysfrom Cork, the Great IVestern would, on the day of her (the Sirius's) arrival, be 325 miles behind.—Bristol Mirror. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Sir Alexander and Lady Woodford on Saturday afternoon, at Mivart's Hotel. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge will accompany Sir A. and his Lady to Gibraltar early in July. Viscount Maynard entertained the Marquis of Douro, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, and Lad) Elizabeth West, and a select ' party, on Saturday, in Grosvenor-square. NAWAUB AKBALOODDOWLAH BAHADOOR.-- The following Noblemen and Gentlemen have paid complimentary visits to this Prince at his residence in the Regent's Park :—Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Viscount Sidmouth, Earl Cornwallis, Sir John Rae Reid, M.P., Sir F. Waskett Myers, Winthrop M. Praed, Esq., M.P., T. B. Estcourt, Esq., Campbell Marjoribanks, Esq„ John Poynder, _Es n A. g, C u E r s t q i s .v Esq_,N — Haldimersh, E sq., Charles Morris, jun., Esq , ceding, Esq., Campbell, Esq., Professor Wil. son, Jas. Alexander, Esq., J. Masterman, Esq. As a proof of the backwardness of the season, green peas, which used to be plentiful on the 4th of June, are this year still costly rarity, LITERATURE. CAMPBELL'S SHAKSPEARE. 111oxon, London, 1838. We hope that this edition of Shakspeare—complete as it is in one handsome, convenient, and cheap octavo volume —will meet with an extended circulation ; for, in addition to many others, it has this great recommendation, in which the majority of its one-volumed predecessors are deficient , namely, that the text is distinctly legible, and may be read without any straining of the eyes. It is also a remarkablY handsome book, and considering the exceeding beauty of the type, and the superior quality of the paper, far c heaper than any edition of Shakspeare with which we are ac quainted. Mr. Campbell is the editor, and has furnished us with all the particulars that are to be gleaned at this time of day, of the leading events in the life of the great drama tist, with which he has interwoven certain critical opinions respecting his best plays. Most of these are characterize d by sound judgment and feeling ; but some few are hastily. written, and no t d eve l ope d with sufficient distinctness of purpose. The remarks on the " Midsummer's Dream" are excellent. "Of all Shakspeare's 'Works," say's Mr. Campbell, " this play leaves the strongest i m pression on my mind that this miserable world must have , for once at least, contained a happy man. The P I3 Y is so purely delicious, so little intermixed with the painful passions from which poetry distills her sterner sweets, so fragrant with hilarity, so bland and yet so bold' that I cannot imagine the author's mind to have been in any other frame than that of healthful extacy when the sparks of inspiration thrilled through his brain in composig: • it." The editor, we are surprised to find, entertains but an indifferent opinion of Troilus and Cressida—a drama in which are to be found some of the most delicious touches of poetry that even Shakspeare ever gave birth to; and ! II which also is to be met the most characteristic passage l e ' the whole range of his plays, where his sound sense, 1,i4 deep-sighted worldly observation, his affluence o f a pt ima gery, and exuberant rapidity of thought are all drawn u pon , all called into healthful and strenuous exercise, in the short compass of about twenty lines. We find many supevici r passages in Shakspeare which other English poets, ave lj r for instance, as Aiarloxe, and Spenser, and Webster, an a especially Beaumont and Fletcher, could have written but none but he could have penned Ulysses' speech t c° Ajax, beginning with (we quote from memory) " Time bath, my Lord, a wallet on his back," and concluding wi t° " and drave great Mars to action." And yet this wag ' nificent passage, the finest —certainly the most characte ristic—in Shakspeare, occurs in a drama in which M r " Campbell tells us " the language is too often tort'l - and tumultuously figurative, and is cramped " Ith the poet's frequent fault of trying to be over-muscu lar in expression 1" Now we demur to the whole of this 0 1 T jection. Sh a k s p eare, i n no one instance that we can call to mind, affects this peculiarity of diction. On the con trary, one of his faults is, that he is often careless in e% ; ,: pression, thi n ki ng rather of the idea, than the manner '- which it should be conveyed. The remarks on Othell! are far more correct and sagacious. They are, in fac t ' 111 every respect wor th y o f M r. Campbell. In this critic. P - occurs an image which would be v er y striking, if it 4 v era original. " Th e sweetness of Othello ' s character b e for e its fall," says the critic, " is the smoothness of the stremil• before its cataract," which is an evident plagiarism from passage in Gertrude of Wyoming, where the p o et says -- " Yet mortal pleasure what art thou, forsooth ? The torrent's smoothness ere it dash below." We direct Mr. Campbell's attention to this matter, be' cause we feel that the imitation is not accidental, for s urely . he must have rea d G ertrude, and having once read that' fine poem, he could scarcely, as a man of taste, have M .- gotten one of its finest passages. THE MAN ABOUT TOWN. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1838. Mr. Cornelius Webbe, a gentleman well known AS the author acme or tw o vo l umes o f poetry, f resh and 110111 0 ' 6 ' as the flowers and the fields of which they treat, has 9:: incline to think, here produced his best work. ' l ,, sketches of town oddities are hit off in a light, gra ce" laughter-loving spirit, without one spark of spleen o r bit terness, but, on the contrary, in a cordial and hearty rilan nor. Of such a character is the sketch entitled " Mr- Hippy's Vagaries," which we cannot doubt—from the; Ir m o' minute traits of " mark and likelihood" to be found i n is a portrait drawn from the life. The essay " p rr Eye' Acquaintances" is not less amusing ; the subject is most' felicitously chosen, and will come home to all who ha'o had any experience as London peripatetics. But M- 64 Webbe, though he has a quick and true apprehensicin of the ridiculous, and evinces in all his sketches a nice c:bur" vance of character, is most in his element, when desclih ing those homely English sylvan scenes which Gainsb° - rough loved to paint. These he sketches with rerraarkabi 2 fidelity, entering into the very marrow of his ther,ne. BECKET'S DRAMATIC WORICS___2 Vors.- Virtue, London, 1838. The author of these volumes is a literary veteran. 0 1 ° has passed his ninetieth year, and spent the early Fat Of his manhood in the society of Johnson, Goldsmith, Burk e, Garrick, a n d th e ot h er members of the famous. Turk.'% Head Club, by w h om h e seems to have been much 'cry spected, and l oo k e d on as a young man of cons iderafile literary promi se . M any years ago he undertook an edi,cion of Shakspe are , w hi c h was well spoken of by the Re'i'ieWs of the day— es p ec i a ll y the Quarterly, a high a uth9rltY --- and publi s h e d a l so several dramatic pieces, chiefly Conic" dies, and one or two P oems, the majority, of which are' here collect e d i n t wo vo l umes, and edited by Dr. Beattie'' who h as p re fi xe d a lif e of Mr. Becket, by whi- c h we learn that th a t gen tl eman i s st il l l i ving, though ;0 0, state of bl h "' ness, and i n no very f avoura b le condC.ioa as regards P e°l ; niary matt ers . U n d er these cirrAirnstances we should 11° think of subjecting the work 'efore us to any stringers'; Cri ticism ; b u t i n d ee d i t calls, for no fo r b earance on our pa r : for it is very lively and, amusing, and some of the drroaW l scenes display no Grdinary comic humour, and kn , J wledg e of worldly character. GREENTVIC7I7EWZMRS, 3 'Vol s• CoMurn, London, 1838. This work w hi c h i s intended, we suppose, to be a sort -kt companion to Mr. Gleig's " Chelsr, a Pen s i one rs, (1 " " n ' i'4 of a v ar i e t y ofstories, grave and gay, supposed to be relat' l or suggested by Greenwich Pensioners. Of course, t bei Ls fore, they are a ll i n a great degree connected with ag matters; and are told, in some instances, with much a re i i droll er y, an d i n others, with impressive earnestness. is a great recommendation to the tales that none of hh e are over-long. The author, we perceive, calls 1,. . 05e lf Lieut. H a t c h way ; b ut this, of course, is a nom de ,g,,,;errr, suggested by a recollection of Smollett's naval hero, SO i U THEY'S POETICAL TV ORKS. 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